Maria Weston Chapman quotes
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“Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .”
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“We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.”
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“Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.”
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“Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.”
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“Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights”
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“Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!”
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“Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.”
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“In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.”
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
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“Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.”
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Source : "The Jewish moral virtues". Book by Eugene Borowitz, 1999.
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